February 2014
The first meeting of The Journal Club will take place in F1 on 5th February 2014. We will be discussing 'Facebook Surveillance of Former Romantic Partners: Associations with Postbreak-up Recovery and Personal Growth' (Marshall, 2012). All studying psychology welcome and if you want to come along see me for a printed copy of the paper prior to the meeting. ALT 31.1.14.
PY1Don't feel you have to learn all of these, it's just some researchers to zap up
therapies in case you are short. Let me know if you need anything else, or if
you are doing a different therapy from those below and feel that you need more research to support your argument.
SYSTEMATIC DESENSITISATION
- Lang and Lazovik (1963) used SD to help student with
snake phobias - it was found to be effective for most of the treatment group and
the improvement was still evident six months later. Rothbaum et al
(2000) used virtual reality to help ps who were afraid of flying, most of
whom were able to take a test flight after treatment and maintained a reduction
in phobic symptoms over the next six months.
FREE ASSOCIATION - Gaeraertz et al (2007)
has cast doubt on the reliability of therapy recovered memories. Such
memories are less likely to be corroborated by third parties or other evidence.
A controlled study by the American Psychiatric Assoociation (APA 1993) reported
that there was no evidence for the long-term efficacy of psychodynamic treatment
of depression, although some recent studies have indicated that short-term
psychodynamic interventions may be as effective as CBT (Leichsenring
2001)
CHEMOTHERAPY* - Davis et al (1980) analysed the
results of 29 studies involving 3519 people and found that for those with a
diagnosis for schizophrenia, relapse occurred in 55% of those whose
antipsychotic medication was replaced by a placebo. Treatment outcome
studies have generally indicated that depressed individuals given some form of
medication benefit compared with those taking placebos. Around 60%-65% of
individuals taking tricyclic drugs show improvement (Gitlin 2002), along
with 50% taking MAOIs (Thase et al 1995), though side effects can be a
problem.
CBT - Butler et al (2006) reviewed 16
meta-analyses of CBT and concluded that CBT was a highly effective therapy for
depression, though Kuyken and Tsivrikos (2009) concluded that 15% of
variation in the outcomes of CBT was attributable to how effectively the
therapists conduct the treatment.
Devlin et al (2009) - students who saw a therapist's office with certificates
rated the therapist as more skilful, experienced, better trained and more
authoritative than than one without. Other research has indicated that success
of therapy can depend on how the client views the therapist.
* Note that the Flanagan book - your A2 book
gives a rather inaccurate picture of chemotherapy as a treatment for depression
(p239) in the evaluation section (fundamentally saying drugs don't work), but
this isn't entirely true(otherwise Drs wouldn't use it), so you will need to
redress the balance with the Gitlin (2002) study in PY4.